Dept. of Geography & Planning 
State University of  New York at Albany 
Earth Sciences Building 
Albany, NY 12222 
(518) 442-4775 
 lboyer2@po-box.mcgill.ca 
 

EDUCATION / ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

1998 present
Visiting Assistant Professor of Urban Geography, the State University of New York at Albany.  Developed and taught courses on: the North American City, Urban Geography, Introduction to Human Geography and Gender, Place and Space.  Position included advising graduate and undergraduate students, and supervising three teaching assistants.

1994- 
Ph.D. candidate in Human Geography, McGill University (expected submission, September 1999).  Dissertation examines change in workplace cultures and women’s use of city space in early twentieth century Montreal as a result of the feminization of clerical work.  Research focused on the provision of worker housing, changes in corporate policy between 1900-1930 based on a review and analysis of documents housed at five corporate archives (N:1400), construction of demographic profiles based on census tract data, textual analysis of Montreal’s English and French popular press. 
Member, Montreal History Group: a bilingual, multi-disciplinary, interdisciplinary research consortium.

1994 
MA in Human Geography (first class), University of British Columbia.  Thesis (180 pgs) entitled "Bounded Justice: Gender, Space and the Law in Early Twentieth Century Vancouver" analyzed institutional response to the location of violence against women in cases heard before the BC Supreme Court.  Research involved textual analysis and fidelity tests on relevant Crown Briefs for cases tried between 1915 -1925 (N:65).
1991 
BA in Geography and Psychology  (Cum Laude), Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota.
 

SELECTIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS & SKILLS

1994-98 
Student researcher for “Montreal in Miniature” project examining social and spatial patterns in nineteenth century Montreal.  Research involved tabulating women’s employment patterns between 1871-1921 based on census tract data.  Principal Investigators: Dr. Sherry Olson, Dept. of Geography, McGill University, Montreal, PQ & Patricia Thornton, Geography Dept. Chair, Concordia University, Montreal, PQ.  Project is funded by an on-going 10-year grant from the Social Science Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).  For more information, please go to: www.geog.mcgill.ca/faculty/olson/ welcome.html).

1991-93 
Student researcher for project analyzing ethnicity in the contemporary housing construction industry in Vancouver, Canada.  Research included data management, market analysis of construction industry, building a bibliographical database, abstract writing, and analysis of corporate managerial structures.  Principal Investigator: Dr. Daniel Hiebert, Dept. of Geography, the University of British Columbia.  Project funded by a grant from SSHRC. 
 

GRANT WRITING EXPERIENCE

1996
Co-author, grant application for "les Lieux de Pouvoir: rapports sociaux dans l'espace Montréalais, XIXe-début XXe siècles" (Places of Power: social relations in 19th and early 20th century Montreal"), conducted by the Montreal History group.  Application resulted in an $118,000 grant from the Quebec provincial government (FCAR).
 

PUBLICATIONS

"Place and the Politics of Virtue: clerical work, corporate anxiety, and changing meanings of public womanhood in early 20th Century Montreal", Gender, Place and  Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, Vol. 5, #3, 1998, pp.261-276. 

"What's a Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This? A Geography of Sexual Violence in Early 20th Century Vancouver" Urban Geography, #4, 1996, pp. 286-293.

Book Review of Timothy Cresswell, In Place/Out of Place: Geography, Ideology, and Transgression, 
Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, forthcoming.

"Wickedly, Unlawfully, and Against the Order of Nature: Homosexuality, Ethnicity, and Post-Victorian Moral Wrath in Early Twentieth Century British Columbia" in progress.
 

CONFERENCE PAPERS

1998  "For Home and Country? Gender, Patriotism and Spatial Contestation in Post-World War I  Canadian Corporate Workspaces",  Association of American Geographers, Boston, MASS.

1997  "'Neither Forget Nor Remember Your Sex': Gender, Ethnicity and Sexuality in the Early 20th  Century Canadian Office", Canadian Association of Geographers, St. John's, NFLND.

1996  "Re-working Respectability: The Feminization of Clerical Work and the Politics of Public  Virtue in Early 20th Century Montreal", AAG, Charlotte, NC.

1995  "A View from Abroad: Representations of Home and Country in a Young French Canadian's  Letters  Home 1865-66", CAG, Montreal, QUE.

1995  "Wickedly, Unlawfully, and Against the Order of Nature: Homosexuality and Post-Victorian  Moral Wrath in Early Twentieth Century British Columbia", AAG, Chicago, ILL.

1995  "La production et congestion des images des femmes au milieu urbain à Montréal au début de  XXe siècle" annual meeting of the "Groupe du Laboratoire de Géographie Historique",  Université Laval, Quebec City, QUE.

1993  "Bounded Justice: The Constitution and Punishment of Violence Against Women", AAG,  Atlanta, GA.

1992  "Reconsidering Sacred Space: a Discussion of Two Churches in the Cowichan Valley,  Vancouver Island, B.C.", CAG, Vancouver, BC.
 

RESEARCH GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 

1998 Geographic Perspectives on Women Specialty Group Research Award, first place
1998 Andrew Clark Doctoral Student Paper competition in Historical Geography, second place 
1997    David Stewart Memorial Fellowship
1994-7  Max Stern Recruitment Fellowship
1997 Alma Mater Travel Grant, Margaret Gillett Graduate Research Grant
1991 Hildegard Binder-Johnson Geography Award, Macalester College
 

SERVICE AND POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY

1997-8 Regional Coordinator, Canadian Women and Geography specialty group of Canadian  Association of Geographers
1996-7 Graduate Student Board Member, McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women
 Volunteer discussion group leader, McGill Sexual Assault Centre, Outreach Programme 
 Organizer, McGill Geography department speaker series
1995-6 Coordinator, Geography Graduate Student Body 
1994-5 Member, Graduate Affairs Committee, McGill department of Geography
   Started multi-disciplinary Feminist/Critical Theory Reading Group
 

REFERENCES

Dr. Nancy Denton, Dept. of Sociology, SUNY-Albany  N.DENTON@albany.edu
 Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Albany
 Phone: (518) 442-4460     Fax:    (518) 442-4936

Dr. Christopher Smith, Department Chair, SUNY-Albany  CJSMITH@cas.albany.edu
 Department of Geography and Planning, SUNY
 Phone: (518) 442-3249   Fax:    (518) 422-4742 

Dr. Sherry Olson -PhD advisor, Geography, McGill  OLSON@felix.geog.mcgill.ca
 Department of Geography, McGill University
           Phone: (514) 398-4956 Fax:    (514) 398-7437 
 
 

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